Chapter 10 Reunion
The man and Blizzard reappeared on the surface through the whirlpool. Blizzard shoved himself away from the man and formed ice kamas in his hands. "Who the hell are you? How the hell did you just do that?" "Relax young one, my name is Himivat, I'm an old friend of your father's. He sent me to protect you." "My father never mentioned anyone named Himivat." said Blizzard tightening his grip on his kamas. "You may know me by the name Suijin." Blizzard gave the man an odd look. "Suijin? Like the elder god of water? I'm young and naïve but I do know when to call bullshit." Himivat winked at Blizzard. Suddenly Blizzard felt the kamas in his hands become ridiculously cold. He screamed in pain and dropped his weapons and looked at his hands and saw that they were severely frost burned. Blizzard stared at Himivat in awe. Himivat smiled and said "You are not the only one with that extraordinary power." He then walked toward Blizzard and said "You have nothing to fear, I am on your side." He then reached out his hand and said, "Give me your hand." Blizzard causiously reached out his hand and Himivat grabbed it. He then closed his eyes and inhaled deeply. Blizzard looked down at his hand and saw the burn was slowly going away. When the burn diapeared , Blizzard looked up into Himivat's violet eyes and said "You really are Suijin, aren't you?" "Yes, your father has been looking for you for a long time, come, I will take you to him." "Wait," Himivat turned around and looked at the young cryomancer. Blizzard took off his mask and looked down at it. The only man who he knew to call father gave him this and he now learned that he had been lied to his whole life. He looked to the moonlit lake to his left. He inhaled and then threw his mask into the lake. As he watched the mask splash into the lake and descend into its depths he felt as though he didn't just let go of the mask, he let go of the deception the real bad guy in his life and start a new part of his life. Himivat placed his hand on his shoulder, and said, "I'm proud of you."
"Kuai Liang, Why did you deem it necessary to wake me up at 2 o'clock in the morning?" asked Smoke. "Trust me it'll be worth it, there is someone that you need to meet. Just wait for Stryker to call us on the radio." "Can't you just tell me who it is? Why do you need to be so secretive?" asked Smoke. "Do you remember the last time we stayed up like this and we were this secretive?" asked Sub-Zero "The last time I remember you like this, was when Bi-Han snuck out of the temple to go to the village and smuggle candy into the temple for us, but let me remind you, that Grandmaster Oniro found out and we ended up getting our asses beat with a bamboo branch and the candy was taken from us." "Yes old friend I haven't forgotten about that part." said Kuai Liang smiling behind his mask. "Is it weird that doing things with you and your brother that in the end got the hell beaten out us are my fondest memories?" asked Smoke. "Not at all, they are my fondest memories too, my favorite one would have to be when we were throwing shuriken at each other and I threw one and Sektor got in the way, and it hit him right in the shin, Oh God, it was hilarious watching him cry and run away." "OH yeah." laughed Smoke. "DAAAAADDY!" Sub-Zero and Smoke cried in unison, and then laughed together. "Yo Iceman. Come in." said the radio between them. Shocked Sub-Zero grabbed the walkie and said "I'm here Stryker." "There is a kid here he claims to know you." "Does he have someone with him?" asked Sub-Zero asked. "Yeah there is someone here with him," Started Stryker. "I'll be right there." said Kuai Liang dropping the walkie and racing out of the door. Smoke jumped to his feet and followed his friend out of the door.
"Please lower your weapon Kurtis. We are on your side." said Himivat. "How am I supposed to know that you two aren't shape shifters? I'm not lowering my weapon until I see solid proof that you are one of us." "Stryker, that is Himivat's medallion," said Kabal. "Only gods have such a relic…" "He could've stolen it from the god." said Stryker, not taking his finger off of his weapons trigger. Suddenly a hand appeared from nothingness and grabbed Stryker's firearm from his grip. "He said lower your weapon." said Smoke appearing to his right. Sub-Zero ran up beside Smoke, glared at Stryker and said "Don't ever threaten that kid again." "Dad!" said Blizzard running past the rest of the warriors and hugging the cryomancer. "What?!" said every warrior present. Sub-Zero wrapped his arms around the boy. "I didn't know Sub-Zero had a kid…" said Stryker. "I don't even think Sub-Zero knew Sub-Zero had a kid…" answered Kabal. Smoke just stood in place, mouth ajar, stunned at what he was seeing. "I thought you would be happy." said Himivat. Sub-Zero raised his head and looked at the god, he let go of his son, and walked toward him. Everyone, even Himivat thought he was going to thank him, but instead, Sub-Zero punched the god in the jaw with all the strength he could muster. Everyone exclaimed as Himivat fell to his knees. "You knew about them, THE WHOLE TIME! Why didn't you tell me?!" Himivat looked up at his descendant, "I couldn't tell you because you are so damn impulsive. If I did tell you about them, you would've gone to the Netherrealm trying to find them, and you would've been killed before you even got close to them." Smoke reached over and put his hand on his friends shoulder and said, he does have a point," Himivat got to his feet and said, "So instead I kept them alive, and I put the curiosity in his head," "What do you mean?" asked Blizzard, "You always knew something wasn't right, you always thought what if he was wrong, that was me, I did that for you, that soft voice in the back of your head guiding you through life, that was me." He then turned back to Sub-Zero, and said "Do you honestly think it was just a coincidence that you two met in the forest tonight? I willed you two to go into the forest tonight and meet." "Well if that is all true mister high and mighty, then explain why you didn't do the same for my daughter too?" "There's another one?" Stryker, Kabal, and Smoke said in unison. "I tried, after I made the psychotic link with Blizzard," "Dominic." Blizzard spoke up. Everyone turned to Blizzard, "Excuse me?" asked Himivat. "Blizzard is the name Quan-Chi gave to me, I am putting that part of my life behind me. I would like to be addressed by the name that my father gave me." Sub-Zero gave a huge grin behind his mask, his eyes started to tear up, and his throat started to hurt from the overwhelming joy that was filling his heart. Himivat smiled too. "Very well, when I created the psychotic link with Dominic, Quan-Chi noticed this and created a barrier around her mind I couldn't create any kind of mental link with her." Sub-Zero turned and hugged his son tightly and said, "I am overjoyed to have you." While holding his son in his arms he heard heavy footsteps and panting from behind him. He turned and saw Kung Lao running toward him. "Guys, Guys come on, follow me." He said. "What's going on?" asked Smoke. "Quan-Chi is finally getting his punishment."